Sculpture

photo credit : 2012 Detroit Institute of Arts
artist © : public domain

in the manner of
FALCONET, Etienne-Maurice
Paris 1716 - Paris 1791

Flore
Flora
c. 1775/1800
marble

group
overall (object fixed to base): 15 1/4 x 8 diam.
inscribed on the base: 29338, a Duveen Brothers inventory number

Acc. No. : 71.176
Credit Line : Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband

Detroit, Michigan, Detroit Institute of Arts

1904 Gonse
Gonse, Louis, Les Chefs-d'Oeuvre des Musées de France: Sculpture, Dessins, Objets d'Art, Paris 1904, pp. 286-287
1908 Hildebrandt
Hildebrandt, Edmund, É.-M. Falconet, Strasbourg 1908, p. 23, n. 3, pl. XIII, fig. 21
1912 Vitry
Vitry, Paul, "Le legs de Mme Emile Masson aux Musées Nationaux", in Les Musées de France, 4 (1912), pp. 62-63
1922 Réau
Réau, Louis, Étienne-Maurice Falconet, 2 vols., Paris 1922, vol. I, pp. 165-70, vol. II, p. 505
1939 Dodge
A Catalogue of Works of Art of the Eighteenth Century in the Collection of Anna Thomson Dodge, 2 vols., Detroit 1939, vol. 1, not paginated
1959 Wark
Wark, Robert R., Sculpture in the Huntington Collection, San Marino, CA, 1959, p. 72, pls. XXIX, XXXI
1965 Courajod
Courajod, Louis, ed., Livre-Journal de Lazare Duvaux Marchand-Bijoutier Ordinaire du Roi 1748-1758 (1873), 2 vols., Paris 1965, vol. 1, p. ccli
1971 Winokur
Winokur, Ronald L., "The Mr. and Mrs. Horace E. Dodge Memorial Collection," Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts, vol. 50, no. 3, 1971, pp. 43-51
1994 Hawley
Hawley, H. H., "Tassaert's Venus, Not Falconet's Flora", in La Scultura, Studi in Onore di Andrew S. Ciechanowiecki, in Antologia di Belle Arti, (1994), pp. 100-106
1996 Hawley
Dell, T. et al, The Dodge Collection of Eighteenth-Century French and English Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts† New York & Detroit, 1996, no. 26, p. 113-115, color ill. p. 114 (entry by H. Hawley)